Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stories must not be less than 1500 nor more than 7000 words in length, and must be received at the Advocate House, Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, before March 15. The winning entry will be published in Story...
...proves negatively, that the year at college is preferable at seventeen. If so, it is extremely important that during the next few years Harvard should break down the resistance of the schools, and progressively lower the age level of their graduates. This solution seems far better than cutting the length and fullness of the college course...
...schools continue to graduate their boys at 18 and 19, the pressure on the college will be great to make a three year college course available to larger and larger numbers. Already the "progressive" universities, under the leadership of Chicago, have made it easier for students to cut the length of their courses, even in some cases to two years. If Harvard cannot induce or cajole the schools to send their men here at an earlier age, she will be forced gradually to make a shorter course easier for future graduate scholars...
...contended by London, or whether they have been, as Rome contends, "hostile acts" by Britain. This abstruse question was the subject of a 1,000-word memorandum by Premier Mussolini to the League last week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron Aloisi were mutually affable and smiling. Over Mr. Eden's vehement protest, M. Alexis Leger of France secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative...
...Press, Mr. Patman would give their annual convention a fighting speech against chains. Mr. Patman understood that he would be met at the station by a delegation of Independent Merchants and a band. Stepping expectantly out of his Pullman, he looked in vain for delegation or band. At length one man rushed up, pumped his hand. He turned out to be General Manager J. T. Young of California's biggest grocery chain, Safeway Stores. Indignant, Representative Patman proceeded to the convention alone, brushed aside apologies. Behind closed doors he eyed the Independent Merchants coldly, delivered an eloquent speech about...